Alice is thirty-eight. She has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy. But she isn't. Instead, she feels she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back of the sofa. Because Alice has a secret which is never spoken of in the family as they are all ashamed, Alice most of all. Alice can't read. Then two things happen. Her son, Craig, brings home his school's leather-clad bad boy, a terrible influence. And Alice 's friend Liz tells her she's tired of feeling sorry for her and trying to help. Alice - timid, quiet Alice - must start out on her own brave journey and for it she chooses the strangest companion. For the first time in her life, she knows what she wants and she is going to get it. With the help of the book boy.
- ISBN10 0747582114
- ISBN13 9780747582113
- Publish Date 2 March 2006
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 13 July 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/